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This week's episode of Nanotech Today features Hooman Mohseni PhD, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences - Northwestern University

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Nanoribbons solve problems in bendable electronics

Scientists in the US have developed flexible silicon circuit boards, which could be used to create wearable computers or biomedical devices.

The boards are created from "nanoribbons", ultra-thin sheets of silicon bonded to sheets of rubber. The sheets are so thin that a complete circuit is just one and a half microns thick, hundreds of times thinner than conventional silicon circuits found in PCs.

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Flexible colour monitors and 'heads-up' displays in windscreens may soon be a reality.

Engineers have created the first "active matrix" display using a new class of transparent transistors and circuits, a step toward realizing applications such as e-paper, flexible color monitors and "heads-up" displays in car windshields.

The transistors are made of "nanowires," tiny cylindrical structures that are assembled on glass or thin films of flexible plastic. The researchers used nanowires as small as 20 nanometers - a thousand times thinner than a human hair - to create a display containing organic light emitting diodes, or OLEDS. The OLEDS are devices that rival the brightness of conventional pixels in flat-panel television sets, computer monitors and displays in consumer electronics.

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This week's episode of Nanotech Today features Sandra Bishnoi PhD, Assistant Professor at Illinois Institute of Technology.

InTimeTV is very pleased to announce a new internet TV talk show for professionals: Nanotech Today. Nanotech Today, which is hosted by Dr. Ogan Gurel, is a truly global venue by which nanotechnology professionals can share ideas, trends and perspectives worldwide.

Guests on the programs include leading researchers, academicians, industry specialists, investment analysts, government officials and other professionals involved in the ever changing world of nanotechnology.

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Tiny magnets made by bacteria could be used to kill tumours, say researchers.

A team at the University of Edinburgh has developed a method of making the nanomagnets stronger, opening the way for their use in cancer treatment.

The bacteria-produced magnets are better than man-made versions because of their uniform size and shape, the Nature Nanotechnology study reported.

It is hoped one day the magnets could be guided to tumour sites and then activated to destroy cancerous cells.

The bacteria take up iron from their surroundings and turn it into a string of magnetic particles.

They use the chains of particles like a needle of a compass to orientate themselves and search for oxygen-rich environments.

Nanotechnology refers broadly to a field of applied science and technology whose unifying theme is the control of matter on the atomic and molecular scale, normally 1 to 100 nanometers, and the fabrication of devices with critical dimensions that lie within that size range.

Examples of nanotechnology in modern use are the manufacture of polymers based on molecular structure, and the design of computer chip layouts based on surface science. Despite the great promise of numerous nanotechnologies such as quantum dots and nanotubes, real commercial applications have mainly used the advantages of colloidal nanoparticles in bulk form, such as suntan lotion, cosmetics, protective coatings, drug delivery, and stain resistant clothing.

Micro and nanotechnologies are revolutionising medicine:

'Almost invisible' tools are being developed by European researchers to discover diseases earlier and to treat patients better.

The miniaturisation of instruments to micro and nano dimensions promises to make our future lives safer and cleaner. A team of European researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Technologies Institute near Saarbruecken is using nanotechnology to improve diagnostic capabilities.

In the "Adonis"-project, nano-sized gold particles are used to detect prostate cancer cells at an early stage.

Stanford researchers have found a way to use silicon nanowires to reinvent the rechargeable lithium-ion batteries that power laptops, iPods, video cameras, cell phones, and countless other devices.

The new version, developed through research led by Yi Cui, assistant professor of materials science and engineering, produces 10 times the amount of electricity of existing lithium-ion, known as Li-ion, batteries. A laptop that now runs on battery for two hours could operate for 20 hours, a boon to ocean-hopping business travelers.

"It's not a small improvement," Cui said. "It's a revolutionary development."

The greatly expanded storage capacity could make Li-ion batteries attractive to electric car manufacturers. Cui suggested that they could also be used in homes or offices to store electricity generated by rooftop solar panels.

MIT scientists have harnessed the construction talents of tiny viruses to build ultra-small "nanowire" structures for use in very thin lithium-ion batteries. By manipulating a few genes inside these viruses, the team was able to coax the organisms to grow and self-assemble into a functional electronic device.

The goal of the work, led by MIT Professors Angela Belcher, Paula Hammond and Yet-Ming Chiang, is to create batteries that cram as much electrical energy into as small or lightweight a package as possible. The batteries they hope to build could range from the size of a grain of rice up to the size of existing hearing aid batteries.

NC NANOTECH 2008
Great minds turning tiny stuff into successful companies

The third annual NC Nanotech Conference comes to Winston-Salem: Wednesday March 26 - Thursday, March 27, 2008.

Commercializing Nanotechnology in North Carolina: Companies, Customers, Capital and Collaboration

From Angels to Accelerators,
From Intellectual Property to Investment Potential,
From the Science to the Spin-Out to the Point-of-Sale,

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Nanotechnology continues to receive growing attention from venture capital investors.

Government, universities/labs, and corporations are fueling the growth of nanotech research into profitable commercial applications.

Investing in nanotech opportunities: Venture capitalists’ perspectives & strategies
Nanotech & public companies: Capitalizing on nano business opportunities and mitigating risks
Global nanotech: Investing trends & governmental funding
Commercial advances: Real companies and real revenues
Briefing sessions on: Energy, materials, life sciences, tools and memory/electronics

What you should know as an investor: A look at the “new” patent regulations & reform and how it applies to nanotech domestically & internationally.

- The outlook for VC backed companies

The device consists of an optical antenna fabricated on the facet of a quantum cascade laser emitting infrared light with a wavelength of 7 microns. The Harvard team used nanofabrication techniques to form the optical antenna, which consists of two gold rectangles, each 1.2 microns long, separated by a narrow gap (100 nm). Light from the laser illuminates the antenna, resulting in an intense spot of light in the gap of size seventy times smaller than the wavelength. This is far smaller than what would be possible with the conventional approach of forming a spot of light by focusing with a lens. Due to the wave nature of light, such a spot would have a diameter of more than 7 microns. The figure is an electron microscope micrograph of the facet of the QC laser with the built-in nanoantenna. Shown are also an atomic force microscope topographic image of the antenna and an optical image obtained with a near field scanning optical microscope, showing the highly localized light spot in the antenna gap.

Location: Renaissance Esmeralda Resort & Spa, 44-400 Indian Wells Lane , Palm Springs , CA -92210-8708
Phone:760-773-4444

This forum brings together the leaders who are building, leveraging, and financing the global economy’s nanotech-enabled applications and advanced materials.

Seven years ago, the IBF Nanotech Forum pioneered bringing together investors, corporations, star researchers and business professionals to focus on commercialization, business and core investment opportunities. Over the years, IBF's Nanotech Forum has become renowned for its unsurpassed networking and relationship-building opportunities.

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Location: Hyatt Regency Hotel, San Francisco Airport

The International Association of Nanotechnology is a non-profit professional association with the goal of fostering research and business collaboration in the emerging of nanotechnology and clean technology worldwide for benefits of society.

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Source: BIO NANO INSIDER Newsletter - Published by the Italian Trade Commission of Los Angeles
Contact: losangeles@losangeles.ice.it

University of Calabria Researchers Pioneer Solutions for a Range of Environmental Challenges

With their ability to filter chemicals on a nano-scale, membranes have the potential to help solve many of today’s most pressing ecological problems, from cleaning waste water to producing the purest hydrogen for fuel cells. That is why in 2002 the Italian National Research Council (ITM-CNR) founded the Institute for Membrane Technologies at the University of Calabria.

Source: BIO NANO INSIDER Newsletter - Published by the Italian Trade Commission of Los Angeles
Contact: losangeles@losangeles.ice.it

In many ways most of Italy's bio-nano industry remains still unknown or undiscovered to the US.

Over the past decade, Italy has invested to expand R&D capabilities and implement vital reforms. As a result, it now ranks fourth in Europe in terms of R&D spending and patent registrations. But despite such accomplishments, the phrase “Made in Italy” is rarely associated with bio-nano innovation.

Source: Drug Delivery Technology Magazine

Report Indicates Nanotechnologies Set to Shake Up & Shake Out Drug Delivery; New Study Estimates US Drug Delivery Market Value Might Reach Nearly $85 Billion

Anew report from Cientifica Ltd., The Nanoparticle Drug Delivery Market, identifies who is positioned to be the winners and losers in the drug delivery market as new nanoparticles and nanostructured delivery techniques begin replacing existing polymer therapeutics that currently dominate the market.

Location: New York

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